Valley Emperor

In Jinling City in the late October of the 22nd year of Xuanping, the autumn wind was already blowing up. Even though the sun was still shining brightly during the day, it was cold at night.

Li Xuan was standing on the balcony wearing a coat.

Holding a thick report in his hand, this is the summary report of the Nanyang Campaign submitted by the Joint Operations Command!

Because so far, or from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present, the Tang Dynasty has never had an institution similar to the 'Supreme Command' that can rule and command the navy and the army. The Army Privy Council and the Navy Command are independent of each other and directly Responsible for Li Xuan.

However, the detailed alliance and cooperation between the various military services are still indispensable. This is the case for this time in the Nanyang campaign and the subsequent Indian Ocean campaign. In this regard, Li Xuan also made some targeted arrangements.

For example, the Joint Maritime Transportation Department was established in the early years. This is an organization composed of generals sent by the army and the navy. It played a major role for the first time during the Nanyang Campaign, coordinating and being responsible for the logistics and transportation of the army and navy. The differences between the army and navy caused logistical transportation difficulties.

During the subsequent Nanyang campaign, because the communication between the army and navy was still relatively lacking, and at the same time, there were many differences in the strategy of various directions, and the army and navy were coordinated.

Li Xuan expanded on the basis of the Joint Maritime Transport Department, and finally reorganized it into the Joint Operations Department. Li Xuan personally took the command and presided over the work. , its personnel composition includes two military ministers on duty in the imperial study, and then members of the various departments under the Army Privy Council, such as the military command department, the staff department, and the logistics department.

Similarly, the Naval High Command also dispatched personnel such as the Military Command, the Chief of Staff, and the Logistics Department.

But this agency has no real power, no power to mobilize any troops.

Its authority is mainly to coordinate the coordinated operations of the army and navy!

To put it bluntly, this institution is a place for generals such as the Army and Navy Guards to sit and quarrel together, and it does not have any practical authority in itself.

This report, which is also the first official report after the establishment of this organization, mainly reports on the Nanyang Campaign in which the Army and Navy Guards fought together.

However, the process of introducing the battle is not the point, because the process of the battle is actually nothing to say. It is nothing more than the navy attacked the port, the army conquered the city of Malacca, and then took down some Portuguese colonial strongholds on the islands of the South China Sea. .

And the general direction of the strategy has nothing to do with this organization.

This report, more or more to say some questions!

what is the problem?

That is the many problems exposed by the military during the Nanyang Campaign!

For example, a very important point was proposed by the army. In the process of attacking the city of Malacca, although it seemed to be smooth sailing, under the surface of this smooth sailing, many problems were exposed.

Especially the artillery problem!

Although Datang is widely equipped with a large number of artillery pieces and grenades, the range and power of the artillery pieces are still very difficult for the solid bastions.

In the process of attacking Malacca, excluding the support firepower of naval artillery, the siege troops used more than 200 artillery pieces, nearly half of which were more than 9 catties of artillery, and there were many heavy ones such as 24 catties and 18 catties. naval gun.

The shelling process seemed violent, but it did not completely destroy the city defense of Malacca.

The howitzer shells, which have high expectations, have played a great role, but they still have major defects, the most important of which is the lack of penetration, so that the grenade can only explode on the surface of the enemy's fortifications, but cannot. Penetrate enemy fortresses and explode deep inside.

Similarly, the navy also raised this issue. In the process of shelling the enemy's coastal defense battery with naval artillery, although the results were brilliant, when they bombarded the coastal defense battery on the top of the city of Malacca, it was because The grenade lacked penetration, so that the results were small.

To this end, the Army and Navy raised such a question at the same time!

This problem is very serious. The artillery cannot completely destroy the enemy's fortifications, so it will bring a great threat to the infantry troops who will attack later.

During the Battle of Malacca, when the infantry launched a general offensive, although the city of Malacca was captured in a short period of time, the attacking infantry suffered relatively heavy casualties.

The Army and the Guards added together, the total casualties reached 2,300 people. This casualty number may not sound like a lot, but it was still a big blow for the Tang military, which had always been smooth sailing. The Tatars rarely suffered such a large number of casualties in wars.

A considerable part of them are non-combat attritions. The landing troops traveled all the way south by sea boats, which can be said to be bumpy, and the environment in the South China Sea is really not good. In addition, during the landing operations, they were hit by heavy rain for several consecutive days. Therefore, During the process of transportation by ship and the subsequent landing operations, hundreds of people were attacked by diseases and forced to reduce their personnel.

The most typical of them was undoubtedly the commander of the 57th Infantry Regiment, who had traveled all the way to Malacca and fell ill a few hours before the battle was about to begin.

Another part is the attrition caused by various messy accidents during the landing operation.

The remaining more than 1,000 people were reduced in combat during the attack on the city of Malacca.

Moreover, because the casualties are generally caused by guns and guns, the death rate is very high, coupled with the lack of medical conditions in the later period, so many of the injured cannot survive.

The total number of casualties was more than 1,300. During the siege of the city, there were about 500 people who died on the spot, but the number of people who died because of their injuries in the later period also reached more than 500, that is to say, 1,300 people died. Among the casualties of many people, more than 1,000 people were killed, which is a rather terrifying number.

As for the navy, the casualties were very small. They lost about 100 people in the Battle of Malacca, mainly in the battle with the Portuguese coastal defense fort and the subsequent attack on the port.

After the war, the Army believed that there were three main reasons for such a large non-combat attrition and combat attrition. One was that the transport ships were too rubbish, so that the sea was too bumpy. For this reason, it was suggested to develop a larger tonnage and sail more smoothly. The transport vessels used for the transportation should be at least a thousand tons, and those small boats of four or five hundred tons should not be used.

The second is that the medical level is too low, otherwise there would not be so many disease attrition and subsequent casualties could not be treated for a large number of casualties. For this reason, the Army hopes to set up a special military medical research institution to study better. Treatment means, especially for trauma caused by firearms and the like.

Third, it is believed that the performance of artillery is insufficient, especially the ability to destroy solid fortifications is poor, resulting in failure to completely destroy the enemy's artillery fire, so that in the follow-up infantry attack, infantry casualties are relatively large. If equipped with grenades, the existing artillery cannot effectively suppress the enemy at all. For this reason, the Army hopes to improve the performance of the artillery, and specifically to increase the effective range. Five or six hundred meters is not enough, it must be more than one thousand meters or even two or three kilometers, and in this In terms of distance, accurate hits can be obtained, followed by improved shells, which make the shells more powerful and have the ability to penetrate fixed fortifications!

As for the navy, it also believes that the existing sail warships, even those with steam engines, are not suitable for modern naval warfare. The poor maneuverability is a fatal injury. Once the enemy is also equipped with steam engine warships, then the current Some sailing warships are refitted into the main fleet in the future and cannot effectively deal with the threat of the enemy fleet.

Because most of the sail warships that have been modified with steam engines, their hulls are originally pure sail warships, and there is not much space for the subsequent steam engine modification, so there is a lot of trouble after the modification. In addition, more importantly, the warship's The protection capability is seriously insufficient.

In the face of the firepower counterattack of the Portuguese shore fire guns, there is almost no resistance. As long as the Portuguese naval guns can hit, it will inevitably cause losses to the Tang warships. Nearly 100 people were killed and injured here. caused by the situation.

To this end, the navy has proposed to speed up the construction and deployment of steel steam warships, so that these pure sail wooden warships can be thrown into the garbage heap of history as soon as possible.

Both the army and the navy raised a series of questions, and then put forward suggestions or solutions to these problems, but in Li Xuan's view, they were all nonsense.

Do these problems exist?

To some extent it exists, but it doesn't exist.

The weapons equipped by the army and navy of the Tang Dynasty are basically ahead of an era. The combination of flintlock guns and howitzers~www.wuxiaspot.com~ steam engines is huge. With the help of grenades, it is impossible for them to take down only a thousand casualties.

The Holy Roman Empire spent 45,000 people to besiege the city of Metz, which had only a few thousand people. In the end, they all failed miserably. You know, the artillery fire of the Holy Roman Empire was not bad, and they were shot out within a day. Seven or eight thousand shells.

But the huge difference between these solid shells and grenades led to the completely different results.

Therefore, the equipment level of the Datang military is already very advanced compared to other countries in the same era.

But the army and navy regarded themselves as the enemy, and then erected a big target, and then said to Li Xuan: The enemy is too strong, we must strengthen our armament.

This operation, in Li Xuan's opinion, is the same as that of later generations of Americans saying that aliens are too powerful, and we must develop more advanced weapons.

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